Could it be mildew? I consulted my late grandfather’s old book on growing vegetables and it said spinach is very vulnerable to mildew. Then google gave me this: Spinach Downy Mildew Guide
The book I used by the way is The Royal Horticultural Society’s Encyclopaedia of Practical Gardning: Vegetables, I used a Dutch translation from the 1970s, so sometimes it’s outdated.
This time-lapse video of herbs & veggies growing is utterly fascinating, wow.
I love to see plants grow! I hope we’ll never get back to the office because seeing my plants literally grow in the windowsill is a million times more interesting than my work lol.
Here’s what my garden looked like this morning:
Lots of baby strawberries
So much spinach and we eat it every day!
Is that the same stuff on the ground too? Did some thing get spilled in it or bird or animal poop? Does it rub off? Take a sample to a garden center.
I don’t think anything spilled on it and it doesn’t seem to be animal waste because it’s on many pieces. My dh read something about cleaning it with a vinegar bath. I am not really seeing anything in a Google search that is super similar, but I think maybe it has to do with crowding and/or leaves getting and staying wet. My mil hadn’t seen anything like that before either. I just thought I’d ask and see if any of our more veteran gardeners have seen anything like it.
I haven’t logged in in ages, but I’m so happy to have found some of my favorite people gardening in this thread!!! Can I join in? I need to take some recent pictures of my garden. But here’s one a week or two old of one of my Tiny Tim tomato plants. Anybody wanna swap seeds? Is there a swap for that going on? I’m a seed addict.
I will totally swap with you!
How fabulous! Such a bounty! What gardening zone are you in?
I’m in South Alabama just above the Florida Panhandle which puts me in zone 8B! We have a super long growing season, from like mid Feb to November.
Very impressive! Everything is so lush and green!!! We’re finally getting spring weather here so I’m finally hardening off my squash and cucumber.
The squash 
is wearing a bra! Smart!
Lol! The first couple of squash I used cheap knee-high pantyhose which seemed to be the consensus online for squash-support, but then the last one, I figured out that the cheap knit masks that they give to my hubby at work when he forgot to bring his own are brilliant heavy squash bras! Haha! I decided to grow all my squashies vertically this year so the grass below could still be mowed. Too many mosquitos out here to keep tall grass.
Immaculata, I hope your garden gets even lusher and greener than mine! It’s so nice when spring finally comes 
But Summer here is a real beast, blaghhh!
Beautiful. It’s a garden of love. Somany yummy things to eat. Here in Connecticut we just came off of a cold and rainy Memorial day weekend. It’s when we usually plant tje last od the warm weather seeds, but it was too wet. But the rhubarb is huge, the peas are blossoming, the letuces and kales are happy, and the potatoes (red, golden, russet) are in. Radishes are round and hot. So the beans and other things will have to wait.
Here’s our garden:
We need to thin some things, and purchase some herbs that aren’t growing from seed. We are in zone 5, I believe.
I am seeing flowers on tomatoes and I’m told also on snap peas.
SO lovely and inviting. That stone walkway is swoon worthy
@Lynx Beautiful and it’s going to be yummy.
We are behind in planting. Memorial Day (very rainy and cold this year) is our traditional “get everything planted” weekend. But it was so cold and wet. So last weekend it was hot, very hot. We gardened early and late, but still I need to get in squash, beets, bunching onions, and more radishes. The sweet potato slips will be in this week (also delayed) which is perfect. The ground is nice and warmed up and the temps will be cool enough to not crisp them on the first day.
Just started eating peas ,and we’ve been eating lettuce and other greens and radishes for a few weeks now. Connecticut springs can be testy.
And the otherother reason we are behind.
OOh, that is so very exciting! I like your otherother reason!
Me too!
